20-21 Season Tank Thread (MOD WARNING IN OP)

[timw33]

Like others have said, it has absolutely nothing to do with the draft pick position (especially now that Brackett has been booted and Delorme/Weisbrod/Benning Jr. seemingly have a bigger hand in the draft), it's all about starting a a top to bottom organization gutting.

 

[Samzilla]

The day management is fired, will be one of the greatest days in franchise history

Until Benning is replaced by Chia, and Aqua has a press release stating "We've been rolling with the apprentice for long enough, it's about time we hired the master."

 

[tantalum]

Maybe there should be a complementary thread entitled, "Which of the 51 Years of Devote Failure has Been the Worst and Why?"

This one because I’m getting old.

 

[PG Canuck]

Hello everybody.

What a wonderful day today.

 

[xtra]

Like I said last time - once benning and co are gone I won’t be part of the tank thread but until then let’s fail together.

 

[TJ21]

Never thought I'd be in a Tank thread with my avatar and caption surviving 7 years later but here we f***ing are I guess

 

[I am toxic]

Guess what's inside this

that's right, you guessed it

The tank thread.

It's going places.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

2 wins in 6 games since this tweet.

 

[I am toxic]

Just a couple more, then I will fire off a barrage of text tomorrow

 

[RandV]

While I can't say I'm on Team Tank per se, I've been saying since last spring that this season would be the ideal one to start absorbing the inevitable pain of the cap squeeze rather than extending it. That's why I wasn't troubled with not re-signing Markstrom, Tanev and Toffoli. Most likely end result would've been a short-term boon but a long-term bane. People aren't paying $50 - $200 to sit there and watch a tanking team, and the franchise isn't foregoing a chance for big playoff revenues because there won't be 18,000 people buying tickets for playoff games. Trade the likes of Pearson/Sutter/Benn as the deadline nears, get a high draft pick and start putting things in order for the future.

What I've been saying the whole time about this is what the focus should be on here is that for Benning to achieve his goal and retain employment he needed the short term option. But the point is he's not doing a Nonis here where he doesn't sell out the teams future to acquire Brad Richards and save his job, we already saw Benning last season dump a lot of futures acquiering Miller and Toffoli plus handing out risky long term contracts to Myers and Ferland to gain that coveted playoff spot and save his job. But no, he had the option to retain some of these guys but he just bungled it chasing after other players (OEL, Holtby, etc) thinking that would make the team better or at least have no negative impact.

So basically the same thing he did in the 2015 off season, and highlights the fundamental point I've been saying this whole time that no matter how much time you give Jim Benning he will never be able to build a winner.

 

[I am toxic]

Remember, we need to deal with both Benning and Weisbrod.



And on a completely unrelated topic . . .

PS: off the ice, violence should never be condoned. any smashing of anything is an allegorical metaphor of abstract concepts being, like, simile'd to pulp

 

[Josepho]

just hoping for a decent middle-pairer that can chew decently tough minutes with our pick at this point.

 

[VanJack]

Canucks are in a somewhat unique situation, quite different than a normal 'tank year'. The thought usually is that a putrid regular season will enhance one's draft position, by increasing the odds of winning the lottery.

But for Canucks, a full-on tank will increase the likelihood that ownership lowers the boom on this lackluster management group. And that might be the more important development than anything that happens in the draft.

 

[Bubbles]

 

[The Vasili Jerry]

Official song of this thread. Yes, you will want to kill me after hearing it.


Let's hope they go poo poo in the tank.

 

[tyhee]

...

Management should now be trying aggressively to unload as many of the older vets as they can, along with some of the younger players that don't look like they have a future on a contender. ...

Could we change that to "New management should be appointed to try to aggressively unload ..."

I fear that current management making those trades would be about as successful giving Kassian for Prust and adding, or giving McCann for Gudbranson-and adding, or giving Bonino for Sutter-and adding and adding ...

 

[Lindgren]

Could we change that to "New management should be appointed to try to aggressively unload ..."

I fear that current management making those trades would be about as successful giving Kassian for Prust and adding, or giving McCann for Gudbranson-and adding, or giving Bonino for Sutter-and adding and adding ...

That's certainly a reasonable fear. There's a bit of protection in the fact that the Canucks currently have no cap room, so they can't make certain sorts of trades. But it's not much comfort.

The strongest reason to cheer for losses (and extra-time games elsewhere) is that a really grim season—say a bottom four finish—will make it very difficult for ownership to stay with Benning et al, perhaps even making a change before the deadline.

I'm even cheering for the Leafs to do well, because the more dramatic the contrast is between their approach early in their tank and that of the Canucks, the better.

 

[I am toxic]

That's certainly a reasonable fear. There's a bit of protection in the fact that the Canucks currently have no cap room, so they can't make certain sorts of trades. But it's not much comfort.

The strongest reason to cheer for losses (and extra-time games elsewhere) is that a really grim season—say a bottom four finish—will make it very difficult for ownership to stay with Benning et al, perhaps even making a change before the deadline.

I'm even cheering for the Leafs to do well, because the more dramatic the contrast is between their approach early in their tank and that of the Canucks, the better.

There's no limit to the number of 2nd round picks a GM can give away.

Well, until the universe implodes or turns into a swamp of entropy. I always forget which.

 

[supercanuck]

 

[Kryten]

We’re back, baby

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Ok people. Enough with the tank gifs. We get it. This is the tank thread.

Thanks.

Let's discuss the keys to tomorrows game. You think they lose big time? Will Roussel take more stupid penalties? Blown leads?

 

[WTG]

Flames score! Choo choo

 

[4Twenty]

Please change thread title to Frank the tank thread. Also first game in the north since the thread came out is a 3 pointer.

 

[Dab]

When the first tank thread is made in Vancouver

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Flames score! Choo choo

They give up a late goal and then a stupid GWG in OT